Thailand Attempts to Diversify
From Sun and Surf for Sports

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand has started looking pretty far afield for the tourism payoff from Bangkok 1998. In fact, all the way to Sydney 2000.

Two years from now, the world's sports fans presumably will be jetting off to Australia for the Olympic Games. And thanks to the Asian Games, more of them "might stop off in Bangkok" along the way, says Bhisit Kuslasayanon, executive vice president of Thai Airways International,...